Please add any ideas that you have to help America.
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Gulf of America
The experts don’t have the answers, because they’ve never considered the problem.
I believe the time has come to consider the bounty of the average American brain, i.e. regular people with reasonable ideas. This then is meant to be a place to propose those solutions, or partial solutions, or illusions of solutions that have been fogging around in your brain for at least a few weeks. Anyone can read and separate and mesh ideas however their creative abilities allow. In true grassroots think tank style, some ideas will be great, some will be repeats, others will stink, and a few will be flat out laughable.
So what.
Got a better idea? Well send it this-a-way.
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I’ll go first:
I think that BP, TransOcean and Haliburton should announce the joint funding of a 10 year $30 billion “Race to Lead” program. This will be used as support for the research of marine extraction science, and overseen by the National Science Foundation. All new patentable or profitable products or discoveries to be split 50/50 between the inventor and the National Science Foundation.
Think of it like a humbler version of JFK’s call to put a man on the moon by the end of a decade. Think of the almost immediate results of such a plan. America having kids thinking about science or engineering or geology or mining or chemistry or what have you, and realizing that they can find a future for themselves and their country simultaneously; while at the same time, the world benefits from the understandings and innovations that come from intensive study.
“But, but, 30 billion dollars would fill a great gulf’” you say.
Well, yes. It would.
I could remind you of the size of the ruined waters, instead, let’s look at the profits (not revenues) of BP. Last year, they posted a $14 billion profit. Just one billion of that going to the restoration of the world in a positive, desirable and publicly supported and adored manner is not a big price to pay. It isn’t even 1/10 of their profits.
The National Science Foundation’s proposed 2011 budget is about $7.5 billion, so this will be a huge boost for the future of exploration. Nothing is ever certain, but three billion from the parties each year for 10 years – on top of whatever other fees, fines or expenses related to the calamity are assessed – may bring those companies back from the public relations disaster Deepwater is and will remain.
Future Forward
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